Ultra DHA for Pregnancy & Lactation Friday 11 Nov 2016 Use only as directed. Always read the label. * This statement was correct at time of production.
Today’s issue of PD
Pharmacy Daily today has two pages of news plus a full page from G&M cosmetics.
Sigma supplier gongs Sigma has announced its 2016 supplier awards in a ceremony at the 2016 Sigma Supplier Gala Dinner and Awards night held in Melbourne last night. The awards are designed to recognise and reward the critical role which business partners play in the effective running of the pharmacy supply chain, the company said in its announcement. In front of a crowd of industry leaders and special guests, the overall winner GSK Consumer picked up two key awards, Supplier of the Year and FMCG Supplier of the Year, repeating their success from last year. Other notable winners included Blackmores (winner of the Health & Wellbeing Supplier of the Year) and Natio (winner of the Beauty/Gifting Supplier of the Year). In addition, other sector awards were taken out by Azoya, AIW, Mundipharma, Novartis Pharma Australia, Tamex, BRL Shopfitting and Bayer.
Oz research upgrade The Federal Government has announced it has accepted all findings in the 10-month Australian Council of Learned Academies (ACOLA) review and has committed $28.2m to support all of its recommendations. CLICK HERE for the review.
Embrace innovation - PSA the Pharmaceutical Society of Australia (PSA) national president Joe Demarte has issued a warning to his colleagues to embrace new opportunities for the profession or risk missing openings for professional growth, in an “evidence-based” document facing issues around integration of pharmacists into GP practices. With some disquiet among some sectors about the concept, the PSA has come out strongly with its position plainly stated. The Fact Check document, as it is called, which is supported by local and international evidence, the PSA states, “outlines the wide-ranging benefits of integrating pharmacists in a GP environment as part of an interprofessional team.” PSA national president Joe Demarte said: “Pharmacists working in General Practice is one of several innovative strategies PSA is pursuing to support pharmacists to practice to their full scope, ensuring their skills can be optimised in consumer-focused, cost-effective, collaborative models of care.” Demarte said PSA had led the GP-pharmacist model in Australia following many years of advocacy and positive stakeholder relationships culminating in a collaborative model of care that had widespread support across Australia’s healthcare community. Referencing the University of Technology Sydney (UTS) Pharmacy Barometer released this week (PD 09 Nov), Demarte added that pharmacists working in a medical
practice were widely supported by the pharmacy community. While the PSA is very clear about its support for the community pharmacy, it is also clarifying that it supports “the role of pharmacists working in general practices and see the two roles as complementary, not in opposition to one another.” Demarte summarised, “As a profession, if we put up barriers to innovation, we may miss opportunities for pharmacists to play a role in the broader health reform being progressed by government – opportunities that are critical to pharmacists being utilised to their full potential.” Visit www.psa.org.au for more.
Indication extensions Three registered medicines have been granted extensions of indications by the TGA during October: Abbvie’s Humira along with Onglyza and Adcetris both from AstraZeneca. Visit www.tga.org.au for details.
Soul Pattinson Morisset robbery AN ATTEMPTED robbery at a Soul Pattinson pharmacy in Morisset, New South Wales yesterday, led to an exclusion zone being set up around the area as a suspicious item left behind was investigated. According to reports from Fairfax Media, the police were called to the chemist yesterday morning following reports of a robbery. Police subdued the man with a taser before he was taken to the local police station for questioning. A short time later an “item of concern” was found in the pharmacy and customers in neighbouring businesses were evacuated. Investigations are continuing.
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